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Additional Project Services

The Digital Communications Group offers a range of services to NYU administrative offices, schools and global sites. The primary focus is on providing guidance and support to all of the universities communities and constituents to ensure relevant content, consistent branding and messaging are properly communicated.

Content Management System

Whether you are on-boarding new content or refreshing existing content, NYU's enterprise web content management system (CMS) is a powerful tool to help groups communicate.

Training/Orientation

Individual CMS orientation sessions can be scheduled, schedule permitting, or will be built into project plans when DigiComm on-boards new organizations.

New Page Design Help

Does your page need a design makeover? Resources to help modify your existing design or create a new one to fit within the system are available.

Site Architecture/Navigation Change

Visitors need to quickly find what they are looking for and organization is key. If you are planning to re-structure your content and pages, Digital Communications can organize it to ensure it makes sense.

Content Refresh/Content Help

Do you need help updating or editing your content? Annually, the Digital Communications team reviews NYU.edu and can assist or provide tips that could be helpful to create quality content for your page or site.

Custom Template

The NYU.edu site uses a 960 Grid in all of its CMS-driven pages. There are a variety of 5 column grid templates available in the CMS to be used across NYU.edu. You can get information on the available custom templates and how to select the right template for your needs.

If you are unable to use one of these, or it doesn’t suit your needs or strategy, you can request a custom template.

Maintenance

Custom Error Pages

Broken Links

Is a link not working or going to a dead page? We can fix it or redirect users somewhere else.

Marketing

Analytics

Web analytics is the combination of web reporting with metrics to gain insight for driving web business decisions

Urchin is the web reporting tool used for NYU. Do you have questions about implementation or individual department or unit web reports?

Redirects

Need to setup a redirect or vanity URL?

Social Media Advisement

We can suggest and provide best practices to help you use these channels effectively, protect reputation, and follow University guidelines.

Site Check

A tool for managing the quality of your website and it will help you with:

Discover all broken links, spelling errors and accessibility issues.

Keep track of documents and media files on your website.

Assign responsibility for different areas of your website to different persons.

Send automatic error reports to the responsible editor.

NYU Search & Search Engine Optimization

The NYU Search Engine utilizes proprietary technology developed by Google. While we cannot control the results populated, we can advise you on how to have better content to improve your rankings or even possibly have a suggested link at the top of the results.

University Visual Identity

The University has developed Graphic Guidelines which includes Style Guides, Typography, Color Palettes and Logo Usage. It is critical that the visual elements that represent the University and its image do so consistently and with integrity. Read More

University Events Calendar

The University Events Calendar serves as NYU's central source for event information. Any NYU group or department can designate an Administrator, who can submit group events to the website.

DigiComm is working towards bringing the University Events Calendar into the Content Management System by January 2012. Contact events@nyu.edu for help adding an event or fill out the Project Request Form to set up an administrator.